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Friday, June 08, 2007
I've been meaning to put a rant-blog together for sometime now. I finally got the motivation today to do it.
I really can't believe how hard it is for MySpace to keep spammers off of it's website. Everytime I log in to check who has posted comments to my profile, or sent me messages I get spammed. I literally get a whole handful of messages and friend requests from random people within seconds of logging in. The longer I stay logged in, the more I may get.
The friend requests usually come from fake profiles, all bearing the same common elements: attractive female model posing provoctively or no image at all. Funny how many times they are all the same girl, with different names. Many times I've noticed their profiles are exactly the same. Or their names repeat. Here's an example from my friend request inbox.
Then a few months ago, it started to happen to my messages as well. Those have mostly been from users with no faces. I don't even bother reading these messages. Here's another example.
How hard is it for MySpace to make it a bit harder to create an account? Add more image passwords that are difficult for their spam bots to hack into. I wouldn't mind having to use one everytime I logged in if it prevented some of this crap.
I really think MySpace should fix this issues, along with many others that I'll cover in future rants, if they want to stay popular. But at the rate they continue to fall, other similar sites like Virb start to gain ground over MySpace.
UPDATE
Well it seems that MySpace is going to do something soon. A system notice post from "Tom" sent out to everyone this morning (after my posting) noted to read his blog about their anti-spam measures going into place soon. Lets see if they can keep their promise.
2 Comments:
while i would say impossible to be short on money, myspace certainly is short of talent or clever thinking. i read an article on the history of it and its architectures and growing pains. over a dinner conversation with someone knowledgeable they could have saved a non-trivial amount of time and money based on choosing the correct way to do things, instead of the slew of wrong ways. in the forums now i don't think you can write the word "style" without myspace manipulating it. and how hard is it to keep these spambots from making thousands of new profiles a day? it is pretty ridiculous for a site that so much money was paid for.
1:43 AM
My spam is near extinct, theirs a feature myspace put in friend options recently, if someone would like to add you to their profile, they need to insert your last name.
So no more stupid friend requests.
and someone spamming though messages gets thrown off quick.
Fraser
3:50 PM
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